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• History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens…
• What do you take me for, an idiot?
• We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within…
• Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of…
• They really are bad shots.
• Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the…
• The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride,…
• Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
• France has no friends, only interests.
• You'll live. Only the best get killed.
• Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
• It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

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